South Side Slopes Eviction Risk: Elevated

This is a renter market: 66% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Severe burden reaches 16%. A tenant at that level absorbs no shock: one cut shift or one repair bill converts directly into arrears.

Court records carry 303 eviction filings across its 2 observed tracts. The poverty rate is 16%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest.

Average gross rent is $1,436, 14% above the Pittsburgh average of $1,261. The voucher gap is 12.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears. The worst year on record was 2001, when filings touched 6.3% of renter households.

Recent filings have not receded much: 3.8% in 2006 against a 6.3% peak. That places it #43 of 78 neighborhoods in Pittsburgh. The closest comparables inside the same city are Four Mile Run and Manchester.

Its 2 tracts score within 0.7 points of one another, so the area figure travels well to individual addresses. Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $75,424.

With little internal variation, 6.6/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.